The 12 hour period runs from the time of your arrest but you may agree to a rest period between 12 midnight and 8 am and this will not be included in the 12 hours. In general, if you are arrested you do not have to say anything.However, if you are detained under the Criminal Justice Act 1984 you must tell the Gardai your name and address. The Gardai have no general power to take fingerprints or make forensic tests.he 12 hour period runs from the time of your arrest but you may agree to a rest period between 12 midnight and 8 am and this will not be included in the 12 hours. In general, if you are arrested you do not have to say anything.
By June 1776, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, a growing majority of the colonists had come to favor independence from Britain. On July 4, the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, drafted by a five-man committee including Franklin and John Adams but written mainly by Jefferson.ead Up to the Revolutionary War. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities.
America's independence was declared by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, but it wasn't signed by all the congressional delegates until 1781! And it wasn't until 1783 (when the Treaty of Paris was signed), that the Revolutionary War formally ended.